Hi everyone!
This attached paper, Deepening Connectivity... was inspired through Sunday morning Skype calls with membersof the BARNi group. Sabre and I found Living Educational Theory research to be a powerful tool for our professional growth and a way to examine how our thinking and actions either connect or disconnect us from our values and from others. BARNi members helped us challenge our old ways of being and to develop new 'maps' (Wheatley, 2012) to help us reach the outcomes we desired. Over a 5 month inquiry period we: reflected weekly witheach other through a joint on-line reflective journal and at bi-weekly face to face meetings; we joined Bluewater Action Research Network International (BARNi); and we developed theoretical lenses of East Asian epistemology (Inoue, 2012), mindful learning (Langer, 1989) and systems thinking (Scharmar, 2009; Senge, 1990; Wheatley, 2012). We use these lenses to communicate our Living Educational Theory, our explanation of what influenced us through this inquiry. We would love your feedback on our ideas on this paper.
Warm Regards,
Kelly Hanson
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